EXCLUSIVE: An officer described feeling ‘sick’ when they arrested a disabled man for holding a cardboard sign, as the Police Federation issues a stark warning of burnout among cops enforcing the Palestine Action ban. @harriepw reports. https://t.co/5mLWPZwJmy
@doctor_rahmeh Solidarity ✊🏽 Actually ridiculous that you're not able to speak up against the genocide of your own people! Is there anything we can do to help you?
@akatepockett So she's mad that agents have diverse characters on their *wishlists* which has nothing to do with the quality of her writing, her manuscript or frankly her in particular
The big temptation of our age is the temptation to let your brain become mush. Read daily. Write your own words. Shun the machines that promise to do your thinking for you. Ten years from now when millions are suffering cognitive decline, you’ll be glad you kept your mind sharp.
UK government never wanted you to see this
They spent 20 months concealing flight path of RAF spy missions over Gaza for Israel
But they recently contracted it out to a US company - and new pilot soon forgot to turn off his transponder
This is evidence for a war crimes trial
“When I entered Gaza the Israeli military had a rule: I was only allowed to bring in three kilos of food. As I was weighing out protein bars, trying to get under the limit, I said to my husband: ‘How sinister is this?’ I’m a humanitarian aid worker. Why would there even be a limit on food? I’ve worked in many places with extreme hunger, but what’s so jarring in this context is how cruel it is, how deliberate. I was in Gaza for two months; there’s no way to describe the horror of what’s happening. And I say this as a pediatric ICU doctor who sees children die as part of my work. Among our own staff we have doctors and nurses who are trying to treat patients while hungry, exhausted. They’re living in tents. Some of them have lost fifteen, twenty members of their families. In the hospital there are kids maimed by airstrikes: missing arms, missing legs, third degree burns. Often there’s not enough pain medication. But the children are not screaming about the pain, they’re screaming: ‘I’m hungry! I’m hungry!” I hate to only focus on the kids, because nobody should be starving. But the kids, it just haunts you in a different way. When my two months were finished, I didn’t want to leave. It’s a feeling I haven’t experienced in nearly twenty years of humanitarian assignments. But I felt ashamed. Ashamed to leave my Palestinian colleagues, who were some of the most beautiful and compassionate people that I’ve ever met. I was ashamed as an American, as a human being, that we’ve been unable to stop something that is so clearly a genocide. I remember when our bus pulled out of the buffer zone. Out the window on one side I could see Rafah, which was nothing but rubble. On the other side was lush, green Israel. When we exited the gate, the first thing I saw was a group of Israeli soldiers, sitting at a table, eating lunch. I’ve never felt so nauseous seeing a table full of food.”
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Aqsa Durrani is a pediatric doctor and board member of Doctors Without Borders USA, with nearly twenty years of experience in humanitarian projects. During our interview Aqsa repeatedly expressed a desire to center the voices of her Palestinian colleagues. To this end I’ve spent the past week collecting stories from the Palestinian staff of Doctors Without Borders in Gaza. I will be sharing these stories over the next several days. I’m so grateful for the time that these people gave me; they were sleepless, hungry, traumatized, and often working 24-hour shifts. Because of the unreliable internet connection their images are sometimes grainy. Their words, however, will be crystal clear.
It took mass starvation in Gaza for some to finally speak out.
The charred bodies, decapitated babies, amputations, mass graves, limbless bodies, relentless carpet bombing, torture, extermination and near-total destruction were all tolerable - until now.
Shame.
@Keir_Starmer More empty words. Stop selling arms to Israel. Stop RAF intelligence flights from Cyprus. Sanctions on Israel. Punishment for British Citizens who joined the IDF and participated in war crimes. Real action to make up for a fraction of the harm *you* have justified for 2 years.
For 21 months, @BBCNews you have disinformed the public as to the scale, illegality & disproportionality of Israel’s actions in Gaza. Actions that amount to a genocide. BBC journalists, myself included, have been raising the alarm since 2023. This statement comes far too late.